Data centers typically have two layers of storage — primary, for mission-critical data, and secondary, for backup copies and analytics. Cohesity, a startup that specializes in the latter, today announced a $90 million funding round led by GV (formerly Google Ventures) and Sequoia Capital.
“Secondary storage typically accounts for 80 percent of the storage capacity within an enterprise,” Cohesity founder and CEO Mohit Aron wrote in an email to VentureBeat. “Yet innovation in the secondary storage space has lagged behind.” Aron is well-versed in data storage and cloud infrastructure, as he cofounded Nutanix, which went public a few months ago.